What is recorded here
Rathdonnell Fort is a subcircular area (DG052-007001-) enclosed by a massive earthen bank up to 1.3m in height on the interior and from 3.5m to 4m on the exterior. To the SE there are vague traces of a shallow ditch and 7.5m to the SW a smaller earthen bank, continuing as a field boundary, follows the curve of the…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG052-007002
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ca
- Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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